Research Groups of the Faculty of Technology

The Social Cognitive Systems Group (led by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Kopp) carries out research and teaching in the field of Cognitive Systems and A.I. for intelligent Human-Machine Interaction. The group investigates how technical systems can be endowed with the social-interactional intelligence that is needed for flexible cooperation and efficient multimodal communication in realtime. Researchers in the group combine computational methods (A.I., model and data-based ML) with theoretical and empirical methods (Cognitive Science, Linguistics) to develop socially intelligent agents such as conversational assistants, virtual agents/avatars, or social robots for novel human-machine cooperation scenarios within industrial, educational, or assisted-living settings. The group is continuously involved in national and international research projects and contributes to the research center „Cognitive Interaction Technology“ (CITEC), the research lab on „Cognition and Robotics“ (CoR-Lab), and the SFB/TRR „Constructing Explainability“.